Friday, August 19, 2011

Neptune Canada: The World's Largest Undersea Observatory

The Neptune—North-East Pacific Time-series Undersea Networked Experiments—Canada Ocean Network is the world's largest cabled undersea observatory, spanning 530 miles of diverse undersea terrain.



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Thursday, August 11, 2011

3 Windows 7 Tricks

Oh Cnet, how I love thee.

Today, Cnet posted 3 great hidden windows tricks. I've already used the snipping tool half a dozen times. Awesome.

Worth a look:

Monday, August 1, 2011

"Half a Penny on the Dollar"

What does $0.005 of every US taxed dollar get you? NASA. Builder of dreams.

As a big fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson, this talk about NASA and how the funding is about to be essentially extinct is one of the many financial problems the US is facing now, and, in my opinion, in danger of falling from the world's super power to an also-ran. Watch and think about what NASA has meant, and what it could mean to the future of us as a species.